Lausanne: Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka will lead a star-studded Swiss tennis team gunning for gold at the Rio Olympics in August, officials said on Thursday.
World number three Federer, who will turn 35 during the Games, will be playing in his fifth — and surely last — Olympics and will be hoping to sign off with a gold medal to add to his already bulging trophy cabinet.
He and Wawrinka, number five in the world, are among six Swiss players named by the country’s Olympic committee for the August 5-21 Games.
Martina Hingis, the 35-year-old former women’s number one, will also take part, along with eighth-ranked Belinda Bencic and Timea Bacsinszky. Xenia Knoll is also lined up to take part.
Federer and Wawrinka won gold in the doubles in Beijing in 2008, and Federer took silver in the singles four years ago, losing to Andy Murray in the final in London.
Meanwhile, Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu has withdrawn fron the Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club because of a wrist injury, meaning British wildcard Kyle Edmund is through to the quarter-finals.
Edmund, ranked 85, will face a fellow Briton in the quarter-final, his second on the ATP Tour this year. He will play either defending champion Andy Murray or Slovenia-born Aljaz Bedene who were due to mee later.
Mathieu suffered the wrist injury beating Britain’s Dan Evans on Wednesday.
It was not clear how serious the injury was.
